Fiddlestix
An amazing, innovative and very unique garden created from pre-loved items
Where
COFFIN BAY
When
October 2024
Fiddlestix is an amazing garden, full of surprises that will make you smile!
Situated on an exposed rocky limestone hill with harsh growing conditions, the resourceful owner has added quirky collectables, found objects and bright mosaics to create interest and a touch of fun to the garden.
From the metal gate in the eye-catching colourful ‘bottle wall’ it is immediately apparent that this is a unique garden! Sizable structures made of recycled materials mingle with unusual containers overflowing with succulents making it almost impossible to decide what to look at first! There is the sunken mosaic wine garden, the iron bed with its blanket of colourful annuals, the rusty car filled with flowers, the arbour made of bicycle wheels covered in vivid red flowering passionflower vine, the original outback dunny once an essential part of the local store, the firepit area complete with a barbed wire chandelier and the fairy garden with activities for kids!
But there is more……. over the ’zebra crossing’ in the driveway is the large-scale limestone labyrinth, the chook palace is complete with playground and dust bath and the fabulous vegie garden with large arbours and raised beds, fruit trees and vines, all fenced to keep the friendly kangaroos outside. The ‘Great Wall of Coffin Bay’ was built with 3 truckloads of posts and beams from the dismantled local jetty and very new is the pond!
The rose garden is also a recent addition and with the massed planting of spring flowering perennials adds colour and contrasts to the many varied succulents and foliage plants.
An extraordinary garden that needs to be seen to be believed!
Size: 2000 sqm
Charity: Coffin Bay Progress Association
Garden Notes
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